The CPAN module appears to require that ImageMagick be installed from source. As such, to do so run the following: ( I'm fairly certain the ImageMagick-perl RPM package in centos should suffice however ).

Yup, I tend to just use the OS vendor rpms as all the RH derivatives seem to have them. IF you do build it manually, make sure you remove any of the OS vendor related rpms first or you'll get your work wiped out next time they're updated.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that by default when installing the ImageMagick RPM, its generally installed to /usr/bin/ whereby when installing from source its installed to /usr/local/bin/. That said, you're probably right in that somewhere.. it might overwrite something which was installed by the rpm, but I'm not 100% myself on this

I'm not sure if removing the rpm is totally necessary, but then again, if you're installing from source, there's really no point in having the RPM ( and why people bother using an rpm system when .. eh.. thats for another thread ) other than perhaps some users on the system which might have software installed on their system that uses the /usr/bin path. TROUBLE TROUBLE!

Also, if installing from source, keep in mind that you will need to keep that updated manually when ever a new version is released. If you have many servers this could be fairly daunting if you don't prepackage custom installed software for mass deployment.

Beau Henderson

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